About this journal

Aims and scope

Educational Studies, as the journal of The American Educational Studies Association (AESA), invites submissions relevant to AESA and the disciplines of social and educational foundations. AESA was established in 1968 as an international learned society for scholars, researchers, teacher educators, students, teachers, and administrators who are interested in social and educational foundations, both in and outside of schools. The organization has attracted scholars who engage within the disciplines of anthropology, economics, history, philosophy, politics, and sociology of education, as well as race/ethnic, gender, queer, cultural, comparative, and transnational studies. Educational Studies provides a cross-disciplinary forum for the exchange and debate of ideas generated from the above-mentioned fields of study. In addition to research articles, the journal invites submissions of reviews of books, films/documentaries, arts and new media, essays dealing with pedagogical issues in the Social Foundations courses; and other creative works relevant to Social and Educational Foundations scholarship.

Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106.

Researchers, faculty, and students across the fields of educational foundations and curriculum studies.

Journal metrics

Usage

  • 79K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 1.3 (2023) Impact Factor
  • Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
  • 1.5 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 1.9 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
  • 0.946 (2023) SNIP
  • 0.476 (2023) SJR

Speed/acceptance

  • 24 days avg. from submission to first decision
  • 268 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
  • 32 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
  • 28% acceptance rate

Editorial board

CO-EDITORS-IN-CHIEF

Ming Fang He, Georgia Southern University
Bic Ngo, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Nimo Abdi, Ohio State University
Michelle Bae-Dimitriadis, Penn State University
Reagan Mitchell, University of North Carolina, Winston-Salem
Suniti Sharma, St. Joseph’s University-Philadelphia
Sophia Rodriguez, University of Maryland, College Park
Boni Wozolek, Penn State University at Abington

MANAGING EDITOR

Pamela Konkol, Concordia University Chicago, USA

EDITORIAL BOARD

Elizabeth Chase, St. John’s University
Tang T. Heng, National Institute of Education/Nanyang; Technological University/Singapore
John Chi-Kin Lee, The Education University of Hong Kong
Guofang Li, University of British Columbia, Canada
John Luppinacci, Washington State University
Ann Mogush Mason, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Juan Carrillo, Arizona State University
Nirmala Erevelles, The University of Alabama
Cleveland Hayes, IUPUI
Dawn Hicks Tafari, Winston-Salem State University
Francyne Huckaby, Texas Christian University
Awad Ibrahim, University of Ottawa
Isabel Nunez, Purdue University, Fort Wayne
Sabrina Ross, Georgia Southern University
Marianna Souto-Manning, Columbia University
Denise Taliaferro Baszile, Miami University
Tanetha Grosland University of South Florida at Tampa
Tracey Pyscher Western Washington University
Min Yu Wayne State University
Jason Goulah DePaul University
Timothy San Pedro The Ohio State University
Leilani Sabzalian (Alutiiq) University of Oregon
Verónica N. Vélez Western Washington University
Tracy Lachica Buenavista California State University, Northridge
Timothy Monreal The University at Buffalo

Abstracting and indexing

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  • Current Abstracts
  • Education Abstracts (H.W. Wilson)
  • Education Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
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  • Education Research Complete
  • Education Research Index
  • Education Source
  • Educational Administration Abstracts
  • ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
  • Human Resources Abstracts
  • MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
  • OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson)
  • OmniFile Full Text Select (H.W. Wilson)
  • Poetry & Short Story Reference Center
  • Professional Development Collection
  • Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection,
  • PsycINFO
  • SocINDEX
  • SocINDEX with Full Text
  • TOC Premier (Table of Contents)
  • ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
  • Gale
  • MLA International Bibliography
  • OCLC
  • Education Index (Online)
  • Ovid
  • ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)
  • PsycINFO
  • ProQuest
  • Education Database
  • ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
  • MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
  • PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service)
  • Professional ProQuest Central
  • ProQuest 5000
  • ProQuest 5000 International
  • ProQuest Central
  • ProQuest Professional Education
  • Research Library
  • PsycINFO
  • Social Science Premium Collection
  • Taylor & Francis
  • Educational Research Abstracts Online
  • Research into Higher Education Abstracts (Online)
  • Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts
  • Thomson Reuters
  • Web of Science
  • Emerging Sources Citation Index

Open access

Educational Studies is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.

Why choose open access?

  1. Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
  2. Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
  3. Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
  4. Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
  5. Rigorous peer review for every open access article

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Society information

American Education Studes Association
Society website: http://www.educationalstudies.org/

About AESA:

The American Educational Studies Association (AESA) was established in 1968 as an international learned society for students, teachers, research scholars, and administrators who are interested in the foundations of education. AESA is a society primarily comprised of college and university professors who teach and research in the field of education utilizing one or more of the liberal arts disciplines of philosophy, history, politics, sociology, anthropology, or economics as well as comparative/international and cultural studies. The purpose of social foundations study is to bring intellectual resources derived from these areas to bear in developing interpretive, normative, and critical perspectives on education, both inside of and outside of schools.

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